Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 80

Then every one was ready to tell how they had seen him wan-der-ing on the hills, unfed, un-cared for, while his master sat at home counting his bags of gold.

Who acts: one, judges, master · What happens: be, tell, see, sit, count · To what, where: horse, hills, home, bags · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, judges, master), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ready	advmod
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 tell	mark
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ready	xcomp
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 seen	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	aux
11	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 tell	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seen	obj
13	wan	wan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 ing	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 wan	punct
15	der	der	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ing	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 der	punct
17	ing	ing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seen	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 hills	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 hills	det
20	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seen	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 unfed	punct
22	unfed	unfed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hills	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 un-cared	punct
24	un-cared	un-cared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 unfed	conj
25	for	for	ADP	_	22 unfed	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sat	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 sat	mark
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 master	nmod:poss
29	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	nsubj
30	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 seen	parataxis
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 home	case
32	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sat	obl
33	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sat	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bags	nmod:poss
35	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 counting	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 gold	case
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bags	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every one			then	ready property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	every one not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past · perfect	judges = judge	horse	the hills			tree rules
4	sit	past	horse's master		home			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location
5	count	gerund	horse's master not said here	horse's bags of gold				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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